Meaning of downticket | Babel Free

Examples

“Republicans may fare better in this round of reapportionment than they did twenty years ago because after four years in office, Huckabee is not the novice that White was, but hte pattern of electoral competition during the first decade of the twenty-first century will probably continue to look like that of the 1990s — slow, consistent, hard-fought gains for downticket Republicans — when, with a little foresight, electoral gains might have gone much easier for them.”

“I wasn't delighted to think success would mean four more years of Bill Clinton either, or might come at the price of downticket losses, as many red-state Democrats fear.”

“While Charlie Crist did run ahead of his downticket running mates, the vote totals for both gubernatorial candidates was 230,000 lower than that in the voting for the constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana.”

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